Honor, a smartphone brand that was spun off Huawei, has announced its new 50 series devices. As part of the announcement, Honor confirms that Google’s apps will run on the devices, effectively skirting around the ban that crushed the floundering Huawei.
Previously, because Honor was a brand under Huawei and was as such subject to the same restrictions under a United States ban, Google pulled…
One of the benefits of an iPhone is that you get iOS updates for five or more years. But when it comes to the iOS 15 update, Apple is for the first time offering iPhone owners a choice of two options.
You can either upgrade to iOS 15, or you can choose instead to remain on…
WhatsApp for iOS working on new Archived Chats tab
June 16, 2021
Believe it or not, Archived Chats on WhatsApp will finally be useful. The app just submitted a new beta for its iOS version on TestFlight with new features for Archived Chats. Here’s how it’s going to work.
According to WABetaInfo, with WhatsApp beta version…
OnePlus promises ‘faster and more stable’ software updates as the company merges w/ Oppo
June 16, 2021
After years of OnePlus and Oppo clearly sharing the same resources but, the former, confidently coming across as their own entity. Last year, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau took on a bigger role that involved overseeing portions of both OnePlus and Oppo, and now he’s merging more teams internally on the promise of better efficiency and faster software updates.
In an official forum post today, Pete Lau…
Tomorrow, the first permanent Google retail store opens its doors to the public in a project that the company has been working toward since 2016. Since there’s only one — with the company steadfastly not commenting on whether there will be more, here’s a tour of the…
Besides astrophotography time lapse, the key addition from June’s Pixel Feature Drop is the Google Photos Locked Folder that was first announced at I/O. It’s now beginning to roll out via a server-side update.
Update 6/16: As of the start of this week, Google has…
Google Workspace branding comes to Gmail on the web
June 16, 2021
On Monday, Google made Workspace available “for everyone” with free, personal accounts able to turn on the integrated Gmail experience with Chat and Rooms — soon to be called Spaces. Alongside that, Google Workspace branding now appears on the Gmail web client.
When you load Gmail (in a new tab or after an extended period with no page refreshes), the service’s logo animates in as a red…
Elon Musk ponders Tesla making a home HVAC, may even advertise car air purification system
June 16, 2021
Elon Musk is still considering Tesla getting into the home HVAC business to leverage the work it has done on the HVAC system in its vehicles, which Musk is so proud of that he considers breaking his no-advertising rule.
Tesla has been putting a lot of effort to improve the…
PUBG maker Krafton will raise $5B in public offering
June 16, 2021
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Krafton, the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or the battle royale shooter game known as PUBG, plans to raise $5 billion in a public offering.
Bloomberg reported that South Korea-based…
According to a report from LetsGoDigital, the Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi has patented three new smartphone designs with huge camera arrays developed in a collaboration with Samsung.
The three new patents were filed by Xiaomi Mobile Software in March of this year (2021) with the documentation on the patents published on June 11th. The first phone on the list seems to be the most advanced…
